I may or may not meet your challenge, Adam, but - as I said - it's not the sentiments (that this work we do ought to be informed by a wider range of sources than is often the case) I objected to but the sweeping characterization of, I gather, junior practitioners in general.
Frankly, it seems to me that people I've met doing this work, both beginners and those like myself who drifted into it when the web was young, respond eagerly and hungrily to insights, metaphors, processes, and themes imported from myriad older, longer traditions. I guess i'm just not seeing the wasteland of self-reference you decry, at least not beyond the ordinary spectrum of abilities and interests I'd expect to find anywhere. If you were Jimmy Page I'd expect you to complain about up and coming hair metal bands and how they need to study Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf instead of copping Yardbird licks all the livelong day, and you'd be right, but my primary gut response to the excerpt Dan pasted was, as I noted up front, a dislike of the tone, which feels to me less like the hortatory invitation to a broader conversation I would hope for and more like a cranky reaction to the callow youth of today. -x- On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Adam Greenfield < [email protected]> wrote: > > So feel free to be as snide as you like in your characterization of > what I write; I'm a big boy and I assure you it won't hurt me. But > you might want to take a few minutes to consider why all the > professional organizations and conferences and journals don't seem > to be producing any net improvement in the quality of work. *That*'s > my real challenge to this community. > > I'm amazed you haven't seen a net improvement in the quality of interactions on the Web (which is where I work). -x- -- Christian Crumlish MY NEW BOOK: Designing Social Interfaces. http://designingsocialinterfaces.com Get It. Read It. Love It. Review it. on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596154925/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
